If anyone is interested in exploring this, I highly recommend skipping to the blackjack exercise. This isn't to say you should read the book fully but I feel bl

If anyone is interested in exploring this, I highly recommend skipping to the blackjack exercise. This isn't to say you should read the book fully but I feel blackjack is simple and enough to get you addicted. Starting with Monte Carlo sampling is quite approachable and, once you've done that, extending it is relatively easy. I also highly recommend reading about Edward O. Thorp[1]. He was a friend of Claude Shannon, whom he frequented Las Vegas with, and used the IBM 704 (first mass produced computer with floating point ops) to explore blackjack game theory in ~1956. To apply his research he borrowed $10,000 from someone with mob connections and won $11,000 in a single weekend. He also developed the first wearable computer (for a specific definition of computer). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_O._Thorp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_O._Thorp